There are moments when the world seems to fall away: the hush of a forest after rain, the sweep of a symphony, the infinite sprawl of stars overhead. Poets call it awe. Mystics call it transcendence.

In his Introduction to Psychology, the father of psychology as a scientific discipline, Wihlem Wundt, wrote that “This science has to investigate the facts of consciousness, its combinations and ...

Magicians have long exploited quirks in our perception of the world to make us experience the impossible. Now, at the MAGIC Lab at the University of Plymouth, UK, psychologist and magician Gustav Kuhn ...